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Peter S. Beagle

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Born
in New York, The United States
April 20

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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Peter Soyer Beagle (born April 20, 1939) is an American fantasist and author of novels, nonfiction, and screenplays. He is also a talented guitarist and folk singer. He wrote his first novel, A Fine and Private Place , when he was only 19 years old. Today he is best known as the author of The Last Unicorn, which routinely polls as one of the top ten fantasy novels of all time, and at least two of his other books (A Fine and Private Place and I See By My Outfit) are considered modern classics.

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Average rating: 4.35 · 855,997 ratings · 28,879 reviews · 215 distinct works • Similar authors
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A Fine and Private Place
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3.99 avg rating — 4,553 ratings — published 1960 — 68 editions
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Tamsin
4.05 avg rating — 4,169 ratings — published 1999 — 27 editions
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In Calabria
3.74 avg rating — 3,436 ratings — published 2017 — 20 editions
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The Innkeeper's Song
3.89 avg rating — 2,788 ratings — published 1993 — 27 editions
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Two Hearts (The Last Unicor...
4.17 avg rating — 2,455 ratings — published 2005
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The Way Home: Two Novellas ...
3.72 avg rating — 2,315 ratings — published 2023 — 17 editions
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Summerlong
3.57 avg rating — 1,382 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions
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The Unicorn Sonata
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3.75 avg rating — 1,108 ratings — published 1996 — 13 editions
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“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
tags: heroes, inspirational
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“Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
tags: inspirational, magic, reminding, sacrifice
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“We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
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Polls

July 2016 New School Classic Group Read

1954, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, 182 pages
 
  48 votes, 21.6%

1945, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, 351 pages
 
  28 votes, 12.6%

1951, My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier, 352 pages
 
  21 votes, 9.5%

1957, Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger, 201 pages
 
  19 votes, 8.6%

 
  19 votes, 8.6%

1997, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, 432 pages
 
  14 votes, 6.3%

1944, Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges, 174 pages
 
  13 votes, 5.9%

 
  13 votes, 5.9%

1968, The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle, 294 pages
 
  13 votes, 5.9%

1995, The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, 216 pages
 
  13 votes, 5.9%

1992, The Shipping News by Annie Proulx, 352 pages
 
  12 votes, 5.4%

1938, Brighton Rock by Graham Greene, 269 pages
 
  8 votes, 3.6%

1986, The Whirlpool by Jane Urquhart, 80 pages
 
  1 vote, 0.5%

222 total votes
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